Comments on: Boustany: “A culture of rot going on at the IRS”http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/16/boustany-a-culture-of-rot-going-on-at-the-irs/
The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast networkTue, 16 Feb 2016 23:43:33 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Phillyhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/16/boustany-a-culture-of-rot-going-on-at-the-irs/comment-page-1/#comment-6994792
Thu, 16 May 2013 21:26:09 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994792The rot goes straight to the core: Obama. His administration is a culture of rot.
]]>By: Buy Danishhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/16/boustany-a-culture-of-rot-going-on-at-the-irs/comment-page-1/#comment-6994725
Thu, 16 May 2013 21:06:30 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994725BTW, this story about IRS persecution of a freelance Catholic writer is one of the most heinous I’ve seen yet.

Anne Hendershott, a professor at The King’s College in New York, listened to the voices. She even repeated what some of them were telling her in a 2009 Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing self-described Catholic organizations that were campaigning for ObamaCare. And the voices sure gummed things up for her.

Read the whole thing. It even has a tie-in to George Soros and his fake Catholic groups who were trumpeting the marvels of ObamaCare – groups she dared to take on with a nice audit as her reward. The harassment worked – she stopped writing for the Catholic Advocate.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 20:44:05 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994663There was a time when the IRS acted against Al Capone. Now, under Obama, the IRS has been acting like Al Capone.
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Thu, 16 May 2013 20:36:48 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994642

txdoc on May 16, 2013 at 4:34 PM

Yep, ACE headlined this yesterday. So many scandals brewing, so little time to cover them all. I’ve been waiting for Fox to cover this…

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Thu, 16 May 2013 20:34:47 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994639Check this out from our old friend Dr Zero on his blog..

And the libs still want the IRS running our entire healthcare system?? WTF

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Thu, 16 May 2013 20:12:57 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994599The IRS has quite a history of persecuting political opponents – Notably FDR, JFK, Nixon, and Clinton. IMHO, this “brief history” is a must-read.

Essentially, the Left has successfully rewritten American History as a fairy tale where every abuse of power is labeled “Nixonian” when “Kennedyesque” (both JFK and Atty General RFK) and “Clintonian” should be used interchangeably- but never are because virtually no one knows about what they did. Indeed (as you’ll see when you read the linked WSJ story) The Thug in Chief actually paraphrased JFK in his odious Columbus, OH commencement speech last week (where he urged graduates to ignore those whose voices spoke of tyranny).

And as an aside, the Right was blamed for JFK’s assassination despite the fact it was perpetrated by a Marxist resident of the Soviet Union.

It is an easy analysis. If the Conservatives and Tea Party types win and implement policy, the IRS faces massive downsizing if not outright elimination. If Obama and Democrats prevail, the power and size of the IRS expands exponentially. And once you have started perverting resources to illicit agendas related to the agency’s interests, it is a short step to perverting those resources to individual agent’s personal agendas.

In this case, we have an Obama administration that is fine with this kind of corruption so long as their interests run parallel, and is tacitly encouraging it. After all, it is the Chicago Way.

The most important lesson is that NO GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAN BE TRUSTED, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO RUN IT CAN’T BE TRUSTED.

The responsibilities of living in a semi-free country include keeping tabs on the people who run the bureaucracy.

Not all Democrats characterize themselves as Progressives, and it’s really the supporters of the Progressive takeover of the modern day Democrat party that are taking the government for a ride, and seeking to control and “improve” the rest of us. I’m referring, of course, to Obama and Clinton supporters, Gore, Pelosi, et al.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:23:17 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994482Nothing will change until we change the culture of rot in the State Run Media…
There has been no watchdog for more than four years and this is what you get…
America has a third world media and that is our future unless it is changed.
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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:21:16 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994475

Oh, come on. It’s not the IRS. It’s the bunch of Chicago sewer rats who took over in January 2009.

ddrintn on May 16, 2013 at 2:40 PM

It’s some of each.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:19:37 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994471Remember, Romney once worked for a company that bought out another company who, sometime after Romney was no longer there, was responsible for the loss of health insurance coverage for some people.

And because of that, it was as if he had injected a poor woman with cancer cells, denied her medical care, and then strangled her with his own hands when she didn’t die fast enough.

But these clowns are not responsible for a single solitary thing that happens under their watch.

Meanwhile, rent-seeking progressives and their supporters took the government for hundreds of billions in grants to short-lived “electric car” companies.

Democrat politicians lined their pockets with ill-gotten gains, and in some cases couldn’t even be bothered to pay taxes on their mysterious millions.

Democrat ex-politicians got richer than Croesus; in some cases by selling “businesses” to terrorist-sympathizers.

It’s a great country for crooked Democrats. For the rest of us, audits.

And the GOP expressed its displeasure with public words of outrage, submitted sternly worded letters of admonishment and organized investigative committees to fill C-SPAN air time and compile reams of testimony. So we can have a record of the widespread corruption, in triplicate. Filed for future reference. If anyone cares or bothers to look, in a few years.

Olson stressed the tyrannical nature of the POS administration and implied all scandals occurring now are the result of a “fish rots from the head” mentality.

wyntre9 on May 16, 2013 at 2:52 PM

Absolutely. The leader sets the tone. Or as one great orator borrowed once from another great orator,

“Don’t tell me words don’t matter”

Obama’s words are derisive, divisive, of someone who believes he’s categorically right and those who disagree with him are not only categorically wrong but selfish, hateful, and just plain evil.

Why would Obama sow such seeds of division and pit one set of Americans against another? For one reason. Because for Obama, the ends justify the means. And his followers take his lead. They do the same thing.

I am sick and tired of the MSM and the “you do know tha Shulman was a Bush appointee?”garbage.

neyney on May 16, 2013 at 2:57 PM

Honestly, as stated before Obama could open up concentration camps and I guaran-damn-tee you that the moonbats would be saying, “well, Republican AG of California Earl Warren interned Japanese-Americans in WWII!!!!!”

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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:04:39 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=260930#comment-6994435I think that this “scandal” will help Republicans propose an overhaul of the IRS including a delay of Obamacare implementation until after the election, in order to save Obamacare.
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